Cool rides from the Houston Bicycle Museum

August 8, 2014 |Carol Christian

Sara Schoenfield Murphy

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Red Schwinn Paramount: he Paramounts from 1959 -1979 represented the ultimate aspiration of every young American racer and dominated the US professional bike scene. Due to its’ success, this time period is often referred to as the “Era of the Paramont”. By the mid 1960’s Schwinn produced several hundred bikes per year, and at its’ peak in the 1970's, Paramount sales rose to 1,200 units. Paramounts could be special ordered, and by the 1960’s came fully chrome plated and with chromed dropouts and fork tips. | Photo by Sara Schoenfield Murphy for the Houston Bicycle Museum

Red Schwinn Paramount: he Paramounts from 1959 -1979 represented the ultimate aspiration of every young American racer and dominated the US professional bike scene. Due to its’ success, this time period is often referred to as the “Era of the Paramont”. By the mid 1960’s Schwinn produced several hundred bikes per year, and at its’ peak in the 1970's, Paramount sales rose to 1,200 units. Paramounts could be special ordered, and by the 1960’s came fully chrome plated and with chromed dropouts and fork tips. | Photo by Sara Schoenfield Murphy for the Houston Bicycle Museum